6-Stroke Chinese Characters
Every Chinese character with exactly 6 strokes in the HSK 1-6 vocabulary, grouped by radical. Stroke count is a stable indexing signal for dictionaries, handwriting input, and fast character recall.
44 characters44 with HSK level32 radical groups
八 (eight) · 3 characters
口 (mouth) · 3 characters
土 (earth) · 3 characters
冂 (down box) · 2 characters
囗 (enclosure) · 2 characters
女 (woman) · 2 characters
宀 (roof) · 2 characters
老 (old) · 2 characters
阝 (mound) · 2 characters
乙 (second) · 1 character
人 (person) · 1 character
儿 (legs) · 1 character
冫 (ice) · 1 character
力 (power) · 1 character
夕 (evening) · 1 character
山 (mountain) · 1 character
巾 (turban) · 1 character
干 (dry) · 1 character
日 (sun) · 1 character
月 (meat) · 1 character
木 (tree) · 1 character
欠 (lack) · 1 character
白 (white) · 1 character
米 (rice) · 1 character
纟 (silk) · 1 character
耳 (ear) · 1 character
肉 (meat) · 1 character
色 (color) · 1 character
衣 (clothes) · 1 character
覀 (west) · 1 character
辶 (walk) · 1 character
门 (gate) · 1 character
Why stroke count matters
Every Chinese character has a fixed stroke count, counted with standardised rules from the 1988 GB 13000 spec. It matters for three workflows:
- Dictionary lookup. Paper dictionaries and many apps sort entries by stroke count after radical, so knowing how many strokes a character has lets you find it without pinyin.
- Handwriting input. Stroke-based keyboards (Wubi, Cangjie, stroke-count IME) rank candidates partly by stroke total.
- Recall. Low-stroke characters (1-5) are almost all HSK 1-2 and high frequency; mid-stroke (6-10) cluster at HSK 3-4; high-stroke (11+) skew HSK 5-6. Learning by stroke bucket doubles as a rough frequency curriculum.
Compare other counts: 1-stroke, 2-stroke, 3-stroke, 4-stroke, 5-stroke, 7-stroke, 8-stroke, 9-stroke.